A one-off collection of Michel Chapoutier’s 2010 Ermitage in Methuselah has sold in Dubai for over US$33,000.

A golden flute worth £50,000 has been stolen from under the feet of a musician drinking at a London wine bar.

A pop-up restaurant is to open in London landmark the Gherkin in January with a menu devised by MasterChef presenter and Le Gavroche chef Monica Galetti.

The Institute of Masters of Wine (IMW) has announced that its quadrennial symposium will be held in Spain for the first time in June 2018.

It seems that one man’s trash really is another man’s treasure, at least for one beer enthusiast, whose collection of 87,000 vintage beer cans has been valued at US$1.6 million.

Former Diageo CEO Paul Walsh is in talks to buy the Peroni and Grolsch beer brands that are being sold as part of the £71 billion takeover of SABMiller by AB InBev, according to reports.

UK retailer Tesco opened “hangover help” stalls in three of its London stores on Friday (11 December) following what was expected to be the country’s busiest night for office Christmas parties.

The fine wine market in Hong Kong has become more organised and is “no longer a circus”, according to Olivier Leflaive’s CEO, Jean Soubeyrand.

Acker Merrall & Condit’s Hong Kong auction has placed China as the strongest buyers’ market in Asia, as bidders snapped up nine of the top 10 lots.

Anheuser-Busch InBev has announced plans to list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in January following its £71 billion takeover of SABMiller.